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Islam , these entities are known as jinns and angels (Glucklich 136 . Satan also plays an important role in Islam , but is counted among the angels , albeit the most disobedient . The jinns , according to the Qur 'an , are not quite angels , but a form of consciousness between human and angels that are also especially prone to disobedience . Given that a basic idea of Islam is submission ' or obedience ' to God , the very act of disobedience is taken very seriously in Muslim teaching as a major form of bad , even sacrilegious , behavior (Brain 241 . The

jinn are genii , made out of fire unlike the angels , they eat , drink , copulate and die some are good , and listen to the Koran most are bad , and spend their time getting human beings into mischief . The leader of the evil jinn is Iblis , who was once a great angel , but was condemned for refusing to pay homage to Adam

The success of Islam in propagating itself , particularly in its Sufic and maraboutic versions , in regions where a direct assault by conquest was impracticable was largely due to its truly catholic recognition of the multiplicity of mystical power . In the voluminous Quranic store-house of angels , jinns and devils , whose number is legion , many of these traditional powers find a hospitable home and passages from the Quran are cited to justify their existence as real phenomena . So long as Allah 's lofty pre-eminence was not compromised , many local cults could be accommodated within the realm of alghaib , the 'unseen ' or 'hidden world (Brain 258 . The supreme deities which exist in many pagan traditions could be assimilated to Allah . Lesser local deities could be Islamicized or explained away as vernacular terms for God 's attributes or as the jinns or spirits of Quranic folklore

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